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Fork [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. an instrument consisting of a handle, and a blade of metal, divided into two or more points or prongs, used for lifting or pitching any thing; as a tablefork for feeding; a pitchfork; a dungfork, etc. forks are also made of ivory, wood or other material.

2. A point; as a thunderbolt with three forks. Shakespeare uses it for the point of an arrow.

3. Forks, in the plural, the point where a road parts into two; and the point where a river divides, or rather where two rivers meet and unite in one stream. Each branch is called a fork

Fork [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To shoot into blades, as corn.

2. to divide into two; as, a road forks.

Fork [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. to raise or pitch with a fork as hay.

2. To dig and break ground with a fork

3. To make sharp; to point.

Fork [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything.

2. Anything furcate or like a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

3. One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.

4. The place where a division or a union occurs; the angle or opening between two branches or limbs; as, the fork of a river, a tree, or a road.

5. The gibbet.

Fork [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To shoot into blades, as corn.

2. To divide into two or more branches; as, a road, a tree, or a stream forks.

Fork [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To raise, or pitch with a fork, as hay; to dig or turn over with a fork, as the soil.

Fork-tailed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; -- said of many birds.

Forkbeard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.

2. The European forked hake or hake's-dame (Phycis blennoides); -- also called great forked beard.

Forked [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Opening into two or more parts, points or shoots; as a forked tongue; the forked lightning.

2. Having two or more meanings. [Not in use.]

Forked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Raised, pitched or dug with a fork.

Forked [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting.

2. Having a double meaning; ambiguous; equivocal.

Forked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Fork

Forkedly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a forked form.

Forkedness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The quality of opening into two or more parts.

Forkel Encyclopedia Britannica

FORKEL, Johann Nikolaus (1749-1818), was a native of Coburg in Saxony. As a practical musician, especially as a pianoforte player, Forkel achieved some eminence in his profession; but his claims to a more abiding name rest chiefly upon his literary skill and deep, research as a writer and historian in the department of musical science and literature. He obtained the degree of doctor in philosophy, and for some time held the appointment of director of the music at the university of Gottingen. The following is a list of his principal works :— Ueber die Theorie der Musik, Göttingen, 1774; Musicalis Kritische Bibliothek, Gotha, 1778; Allgemeine Geschichte der Musik, Leipsic, 1781. The last is his most important work. He also wrote a Dictionary of Musical Lit er attire, which is full of valuable material.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 9, p. 414
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Forkerve [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Forcarve, v. t.

Forkhead [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

the point of an arrow.

Forkiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.

Forking [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Fork

Forkless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having no fork.

Forktail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A salmon, in his fourth year's growth. [Local.]

Forktail [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One of several Asiatic and East Indian passerine birds, belonging to Enucurus, and allied genera. The tail is deeply forking.

2. A salmon in its fourth year's growth.

Forky [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Forked; furcated; opening into two or more parts, shoots or points; as a forky tongue.

Forky [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.

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1 KJV and 11 BSB verses contain “Fork”

Exodus 27:3

And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass.

Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.

Exodus 38:3

And he made all the vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the vessels thereof made he of brass.

He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.

Numbers 4:14

And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers skins, and put to the staves of it.

and place on it all the vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and sprinkling bowls—all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine leather and insert the poles.

1 Samuel 2:13

And the priest’s custom with the people was, that, when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant came, while the flesh was in seething, with a fleshhook of three teeth in his hand;

or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling

1 Samuel 2:14

And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.

1 Samuel 13:21

Yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the coulters, and for the forks, and for the axes, and to sharpen the goads.

The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.

1 Chronicles 28:17

Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver:

the weight of the pure gold for the forks, sprinkling bowls, and pitchers; the weight of each gold dish; the weight of each silver bowl;

2 Chronicles 4:16

The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house of the LORD of bright brass.

and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.

Jeremiah 15:7

And I will fan them with a fan in the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy my people, since they return not from their ways.

I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.

Ezekiel 21:21

For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver.

Matthew 3:12

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

Luke 3:17

Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”